Desperate times : Day 4

-October 25, 2008-
-Humans: 95 Zombies: 191-

No escape. No cure. One hope.

They didn’t know what it was, but the op assured the humans that if they followed his instructions, he would show them a way out. Meeting in Ryle they found general directions leading to the location of one of three generators that they would need to activate for the op. Splitting into three groups they spread across campus. Jeremy Hellwig, Mike Merrit, and Topher Hasset’s group managed to find the first location in Kirk Building. Solving the next clue they called the other humans – the second generator was in West Campus, but their fate lay in Kirk. For while they were solving it, the horde had descended, surrounding the entire building. They made a choice – they would attempt to draw in as much of the horde as they could, giving the other teams more freedom to complete the mission.

Jocelyn Nebel, Arron Hustead, Eric Bozarth, Michael Miller, and the rest of the group split into two. Half would race to West Campus while the second half would secure Barnett. Tailed by a contingent of four zombies they made it into West to discover the last generator was in Barnett. By this time Josh Hirner’s group was trapped in Ophelia Parish, and so it was up to the West group to meet back up with its Barnett half.

Finally, all three generators were on their way to warming up, but they still had one location left. Following it they entered Grim Hall to find a message from the op:

Posted to op.rebuildourfuture.com following the completion of the mission:

Let me tell you a story…

Many years ago, a global pandemic was about to wipe out all human life on earth. Scientists were at a loss for how to stop it. Then a man showed up; he claimed to have developed a cure. He was brilliant with technology, charismatic, and cunning. The world believed his story, they needed to believe his story.

He founded a technological empire on that fame… you know that man, and his empire.

Some bought the tale… attaching themselves to the man who saved humanity. They went to work for him, knowing not that he himself had not developed the cure.

Some of us were not so convinced. We knew this “miracle cure” was a set-up, but there was no way to come forward with the information. We planted ourselves in his organization, so one day we could expose him, and whatever he was doing with his “cure.”

I and another, who had placed himself in the military branch of the company, were about to move. After the 2008 incident, we knew we had little time, but we still had no evidence. Until a cure was found for that “Ebola” outbreak. The cure was smuggled outside the company, and when it was examined by our researchers, we were shocked. It was the same cure as before. Moreover, it was unlike any cure we had seen before. It was alive. Not in the way a retrovirus is alive, but it was made of tiny, moving, replicating, molecular machines. This was our proof; more was going on.

We built our case over the next five years.

By late summer 2013, our man in the military had just been given a new assignment, and we were ready to bring the company down… then the “Supervirus” was released.

That was three days ago now… Our plans were foiled; but we gained a new ally.

A researcher who went to the company to “cure” the Ebola virus of 2008 came to see that her cure was manipulated, implanted with the same nanobots we had seen before. She finally came to see what we had already known…

An army was being formed…

The nanobots could be controlled by the company, used as a personal private army. Their leader would be the research subject of the past five years… the last living infected being from 2008. He too was ultimately controlled by the company, however.

He infected others, and they others, and now it spirals out of control…

They are smart, and they can use their nanobots to controls machines and computers…

And so began the Kirk Standoff.